Medically Backed Performance
Leading orthopedic surgeons and foot and ankle specialists provided input on The Pivot 1.0's anatomical design.
Leading orthopedic surgeons and foot and ankle specialists provided input on The Pivot 1.0's anatomical design.
For the Pros
26% of NBA players sprain their ankle every season, and many sprain it multiple times. Even athletes with full medical and training staffs and incredible body control continue spraining their ankles.
For the Pros
26% of NBA players sprain their ankle every season, and many sprain it multiple times. Even athletes with full medical and training staffs and incredible body control continue spraining their ankles.
For Anyone
Ankle injuries are the most common injury in basketball at all levels, with 630,000 sprains every year in the USA alone. If braces and tape worked, we wouldn't all have sprains.
For Anyone
Ankle injuries are the most common injury in basketball at all levels, with 630,000 sprains every year in the USA alone. If braces and tape worked, we wouldn't all have sprains.
Slippery Slope
One ankle injury leads to another. Each injury can damage your ligaments and nerve endings. Players with a previous ankle injury are almost 5x more likely to have another.
Slippery Slope
One ankle injury leads to another. Each injury can damage your ligaments and nerve endings. Players with a previous ankle injury are almost 5x more likely to have another.
Ankle Death
Up to 40% of ankle sprains go on to develop chronic symptoms. Even if your ligaments are stretchy and strong, you can lose proprioception with nerve damage and increase the likelihood of reinjury.
Ankle Death
Up to 40% of ankle sprains go on to develop chronic symptoms. Even if your ligaments are stretchy and strong, you can lose proprioception with nerve damage and increase the likelihood of reinjury.
Foot Slip
Under extreme force your foot slips within the shoe and your brain isn't able to rebalance. Braces & tape can't help.
Foot Slip
Under extreme force your foot slips within the shoe and your brain isn't able to rebalance. Braces & tape can't help.
Loosening
Braces and tape can be overly-restrictive when put on, and then over time loosen to where they're under-restrictive.
Loosening
Braces and tape can be overly-restrictive when put on, and then over time loosen to where they're under-restrictive.
Proprioception
Additional material may help proprioception, but if your foot has slipped within the shoe then the added material is sending bad information to your brain.
Proprioception
Additional material may help proprioception, but if your foot has slipped within the shoe then the added material is sending bad information to your brain.
Dependency
Consistently overly restricting ankle movement can weaken ankle strength and proprioceptive ability.
Dependency
Consistently overly restricting ankle movement can weaken ankle strength and proprioceptive ability.
The Pivot 1.0
Time for Something Different
Designed from the ground up to save ankles and improve performance
ReAxon Outriggers
Outriggers in the forefoot and heel prevent inversion before it even happens, coming into contact with the ground first in dangerous situations and allowing your body to balance.
Flex Lock Straps
Dual straps are built into the shoe to lock in your heel and foot, while also keeping motion within a safe range. Anatomically designed to reinforce key ligaments.
Wide Toe Box
A wide forefoot area enables natural toe splay and enhances balance. Most basketball shoes have a narrow toe box that impedes the body's natural balancing abilities.
Dual Heel Counters
A soft inner heel counter hugs the heel, while a hard external heel counter locks it in place under extreme force.
Performance Insole
Every Pivot comes with a performance insole with arch support, heel crash pad, forefoot bounce pad, and a deep heel cup to support and orient the foot.
Midfoot Containment
Medial and lateral webbing goes from the laces to the base of the shoe, providing customizable lockdown and added strength.
Hear from the hoopers who wear it
The Secret To This Ankle Saving Moment
Preventing ankle injuries at their root causes: instability, disconnect, and inversion.
No Foot Slip
Most ankle injuries involve the foot slipping up the side of the shoe, creating disconnect and stopping the body from balancing.
Our Flex Lock System and ReAxon Bottom Unit unite foot and shoe, creating the ultimate shoe-body connection.
Balance
Most basketball shoes are narrow, which impedes the body’s balancing capabilities.
Our wide toe box allows for toe splay to unlock your body's natural stability.
Dual forefoot and heel outriggers are larger and stronger than other basketball shoes, and can prevent inversion before it even occurs.
Free Motion
Braces and tape immobilize the ankle, restricting motion, weakening the ankle, and creating dependency.
The Pivot 1.0 allows free motion within a safe range, giving a greater range of motion than most braces or tape jobs, keeping your ankle strong and active.
Proprioception
Proprioception is your body's knowledge of where it is in space.
Braces and tape create more separation between the body and the court. This reduces shoe-body connection and may reduce proprioception.
Our wide base provides your body with extra information, and Flex Lock Straps ensure you stay connected to the shoe.
Lasts all game
Tape and braces tend to loosen up over time, going from overly restrictive to ineffective over the course of a game.
The Pivot 1.0's dual straps have multiple connection points in order to reduce loosening and stay tight all game.
The Pivot 1.0
Throw away your ankle brace.
Pivot to the Pivot
Built to Perform
No detail was overlooked to make sure that the Pivot 1.0 performs at the highest level.
Full length herringbone
No-Nonsense Traction
Many brands use the bottom of the shoe to tell a story. We only have one story to tell: stop on a dime traction.
Full length heel to toe herringbone for fast sprints and stepbacks. Lateral herringbone for quick cuts and defensive slides. A pivot point for multidirectional movement.
It's not rocket science.
Banked Curving
Get Low
Added curvature in the medial forefoot gives extra traction when getting deep on changes of direction. For the shiftiest players.
No Foot-Lag
Ultimate Reactivity
Other shoes can have a lag between when you pick up your foot and when the shoe follows. Our Flex Lock Straps provide such strong lock in that there's no foot lag. That means where you go, the shoe goes - no milliseconds lost.
All Game Comfort
No Tired Feet
Forefoot bounce pad, heel poron crash pad, hard arch support shank, full length memory foam, ETPU strobel, and EVA.
Everything you need to keep your feet feeling fresh game after game, day after day.
